WASHINGTON, Pa. -- The Grove City
College baseball team had its season come to an end Friday night in the loser's
bracket final of the 2009 Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship
Tournament at Ross Memorial Park with an 18-7 loss to top-seeded Washington &
Jefferson.

Earlier Friday, the Wolverines stayed
alive in the tournament by rallying for a 10-9 win over Thomas More in an
elimination game. Junior DH Tyler Thompson (Lee, Maine/Lee Academy) belted a
three-run homer to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Grove
City the win.

In Friday's first game, Grove City
jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the second inning by scoring three runs in each of
its first two at-bats. Sophomore right fielder Scott Moran (Columbia, Md./Chapelgate
Christian) cracked a two-run homer in the bottom of the second to cap the
outburst.

Thomas More eventually tied the game
6-6 in the seventh. The Saints then took advantage of three Grove City errors in
the top of the eight to take a 9-6 lead. Grove City trimmed the lead to 9-7 in
the eighth as sophomore second baseman Andrew Patterson (Cuyahoga Falls,
Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) singled in sophomore left fielder Butch Kriger
(Pittsburgh, Pa./Montour).

Eventual winning pitcher Matt Tindall
(Copley, Ohio/Copley) worked out of a jam in the top of the ninth to keep Grove
City within two. Moran reached on an error while senior shortstop Ben Wilson
(Mechanicsville, Va./Lee-Davis) was hit by a pitch. Following a force play,
Thompson hit his fourth home run of the season.

Kriger and Patterson both went 2 for
4 while Moran and senior center fielder Seth Thompson (Canton, Ohio/GlenOak)
both went 2 for 5. Kriger and sophomore catcher Marcus Magister (Allison Park,
Pa./Hampton) both doubled.

W&J posted six second-inning runs in
the nightcap to take early control of the game. Magister's two-run double in the
third cut the lead to 6-2 but W&J scored seven runs over the middle three
innings in breaking the game open.

Wilson homered and also scored three
runs. Seth Thompson went 3 for 5 with a double while Tyler Thompson cracked
three hits.

Magister finished the season with
single-season school records for home runs (13) and runs batted in (52).
Magister and Moran both scored 43 runs, the second-highest total in program
history. Senior first baseman Brad Stombaugh (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon)
recorded 56 hits this year, which is the second-highest single-season mark at
Grove City. Tindall finished his career with a Grove City-record 49 appearances.

Wilson scored 111 career runs, the
most in program history. He also played in a school-record 138 games.